Author: editorial

20 Blue Tornado (Jennifer Bedford)SW

Earthbound

It isn’t the burgeoning global human population that is the main threat to planetary sustainability, but rather the escalating expectations of a global human population rapidly committing itself in ever-increasing waves to the current Western “mindset.” This mindset, crystallized by modern economics, generates a world in which economic actors operate […]

45 years of A\J

AJ at 45

We were founded by a young professor Bob Paehlke in 1971 at Trent University. 2 Huge argument arises in 1989 among deep and social ecologists in Letters to Editor. 3 In November 2015, we stopped updating “Crimes Against Ecology.” #StopHarper 4 Back in 1999 we started publishing Canada’s Environmental Education Guide.  5 Our latest […]

sunflower

Believe This

Welcome to the first issue of 2016, our 45th anniversary year. This issue, Faith, was conceived early in 2015 with an eye towards helping environmentally minded Canadians sustain their own hope and faith despite the myriad of challenges that we face as we tackle the impacts of climate change. 

Federal Election

The Election Climate

Banking heavily on a belief that you and I are preoccupied with fighting climate change, the front-runners in the federal election have anchored their environmental platforms to the way in which they’ll tackle greenhouse gases: cap-and-trade, carbon taxes, vague promises of low-carbon economies. While New Democrats and Liberals attempt to […]

Get to work

Editorial: Get to Work

Business will be the force that drives society’s transformation to a low-carbon economy. With limited involvement from the business sector so far, our progress has been inadequate. Yet, of the world’s largest 100 economic entities, 40 are corporations, and they generated over $7.9-trillion (US) in 2012, giving them – rightly or […]